Ide

Hague's Geology of the Eureka District, Ne-
vada, 1892) and Geology of the Yellowstone Na-
tional Park (1899) in which he collaborated with
Hague and others. Of his private publications,
aside from his Microscopical Physiography of
the Rock-making Minerals (1888), translated
from the German of Rosenbusch, there remain
his volumes on Rock Minerals (1906, 1911);
Igneous Rocks (2 vols., 1909-13); and The
Problem of Volcanism (1914), containing the
substance of his Silliman Lectures delivered at
Yale University in 1914* Iddings was distinctly
scholarly, a man of broad culture and gentle-
manly bearing. Somewhat reserved, he never-
theless made friends among those of his kind and
calling. He never married. He died at the
Montgomery County (Maryland) Hospital on
Sept 8, 1920, through heart failure, incidental
to a severe surgical operation.

[Am. Jour, of Sci., Oct. 1920; Class of 1877, Shef-
field Sci. School, 1877-1921 (n.d.); Obit. Record of
Yale Grads.j 1920-21 (1921) ; Report on the Progress
. . . of the U. S. Nat. Museum for the Year Ending
June }o, 1921 (1921); Evening Star (Washington,
D. C), Sept 10, 1920; personal information.]

G.P.M.

IDE, HENRY CLAY (Sept. 18, i844-June
13, 1921), lawyer, statesman, diplomat, was the
son of a farmer in Barnet, Vt His parents, Ja-
cob and Lodoska (Knights) Ide, struggled hard
that Henry might have an education. After
graduating from Dartmouth College in 1866 he
served two years as principal of the St. Johns-
bury (Vermont) Academy and one year as prin-
cipal of the Getting high school at Arlington,
Mass. He then took up the study of law and
was admitted to the Vermont bar in 1871. On
Oct. 26, 1871, he married Mary M. Melcher of
Stoughton, Mass., who died Apr. 13, 1892. He
was state's attorney for Caledonia County in
1876 and 1877 and state senator from 1882 to
1885. In 1884 he was president of the Republi-
can State Convention and four years later a
Vermont delegate to the Republican National
Convention.

On Mar. 3,1891, President Harrison appoint-
ed Ide "Land Commissioner in Samoa," a position
created by the treaty of 1889 between the United
States, Great Britain, and Germany, which pro-
vided that each signatory should name a repre-
sentative to adjust claims by aliens of titles to
land in the Samoan Islands. He reached Apia
May 16 but resigned six months later because
of serious illness in his family. On Nov. 10,
two days before Ide left Samoa, Robert Louis
Stevenson wrote him: "I hear with great re-
gret of your departure. They say there are as
good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, but I

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doubt if they will come to our hook. It is not
only that you have shown so much capacity,
moderation, tact, and temper; but you have had
the talent to make these gifts recognized and ap-
preciated among our very captious population.
For my part, I always thought your presence
the best thing that the treaty had brought us."

The treaty of 1889 provided that the three sig-
natories in common accord should name a chief
justice of Samoa. Ide accepted the offer of this
position in August 1893 and sailed for Samoa
two months later. His position was difficult in
that he had to try cases not only of nationals of
the three treaty powers but also of native Sa-
moans and other natives of the South Sea Isl-
ands. In addition, he was given authority to rec-
ommend to the government of Samoa the pas-
sage of laws for the prevention and punishment
of crime and for the collection of taxes. After
serving three years he submitted his resignation,
but owing to the delayed arrival of his successor,
he remained on duty until May 13, 1897. Upon
his departure the Samoa Weekly Herald com-
mented on his clean record as a just and able
judge, and King Malietoa stated: "You will not
be forgotten in Samoa, you will be remembered
as the good Chief Justice who knew our ways
and laws and customs and was kind and just to
us." Ide felt that his work had been made more
difficult because the Democratic administration
was not in sympathy with the continuance of the
treaty of 1889.

In March 1900 Ide was appointed by Presi-
dent McKinley to serve on the Philippine Com-
mission delegated "to continue and perfect the
work of organizing and establishing civil gov-
ernment already commenced by the military au-
thorities/' When the members of the Commis-
sion were made heads of four executive depart-
ments in 1901, Ide became secretary of finance
and justice. In this capacity he had much to do
with the framing of a large amount of legislation
which was adopted, notably the Code of Civil
Procedure of 1901 and the Internal Revenue
Law of 1904; and he was largely responsible
for the effective reform of the Philippine cur-
rency. He was made vice-governor, Feb. I,
1904, acting governor, Nov. 4, 1905, and gov-
ernor-general, Apr. 2, 1906. When he resigned
in September 1906 he had completed six years
of most valuable service during the constructive
period of the government established in the Isl-
ands by the United States. On Apr. i, 1909,
President Taft appointed him envoy extraor-
dinary and minister plenipotentiary to Spain.
As minister, he served ably for four years, un-
eventful years in the relations between the

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